Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-16

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the stock market.
In the third watch of the night, pass
down the streets of these cities, and you
hear the click of the dice and the sharp,
keen stroke of the ball on the billiard
table. At these places merchant pr aces
dismount, and legislators, tired of making
| laws, take respite in breaking them.
J All classes of people are robbed by this
crime-the importer of foreign silks and
the dealer in Chatham street pocket
hankerchiefs. The clerks of the store
take hand after the shutters are pul up,
and the officers of the court while away
their time while the jury is out.
In Baden Baden, when that city was
the greatest of all gambling places on
earth, it was no unusual thing the next
morning, in the woods, around about the
city, to find the suspended bodies Of
suicides. Whatever be the splendor of
surroundings, there is no excuse for this
crime. The thunders of eternal
destruction roll in the deep rumble Of
that gambling tenpin-alley, and as men
come out to join the long procession of
sin, all the drums of death beat the dead
march of a thousand souls.
In one year in the city of New York
| IucIS WSI0 SI1OOUJUUO SdSIIuCou
! AT THE GAMING TABLE.
| Perhaps some of your friends have
been smitten of this sin. Perhaps some
of you have been smitten by it.
Perhaps there may be q stranger in the
house this morning come from some OF
the hotels. Look out for those agents of
iniquity who tarry around about the
hotels and ask you: "Would you like to
see the city," eyes" "Have you ever
been in that splendid building up town."
s'No." Then the villain will undertake
to show you what he calls the "lions"
and the elephants" and after q young
man, through morbid curiosity or through
badness of soul, has seen the"Iions" and
the elephants" he will be on enchanted
ground. Look out for these men who
move around the hotels with sleek hats
always sleek hats-and patronizing air,
and unaccountaole interest about your
welfare and entertainment. You are &
fool if you cannot see through it. They
want your money.
In Chestnut street, Philadelphia, while
1 was living in that city, an incident oc-
Cured Which'was familiar to US there.
In Chestnut street young man went into
gambling saloon, lost all his property,
then blew his brains out, and before the
blood was washed from the floor by the
maid the comrades were shutting cards
again. You see there is more mercy IN
| the highW aym6n for the belated traveller
on whose body he heaps the stones, there
is more mercy in the frost for the flower
| that it kills, there is more mercy in the
| hurricane that shiVers the steamer on the
Long Island coast, than there is mercy in
the heart of the gambler for his victim.
| In the third watch of the night, also,
drunkenness does it's worst. The drink
| ing will be respectable at S O'Clock in the
evening, a little flushed at g., laxative
and garrulous at 10, at II blasphemous,
at II the hat falls of, at l the man falls
to the floor asking for more drink.
StreWn through the drinking saloons of
the city, fathers, brothers, husbands,
sons
AS GOOD AS YOU ARE
by nature, perhaps better.
In the high circles of society it is
hushed up. A merchant prince, If he gets
noisy and uncomfortable, is taken by his
fellow jewellers, who try to get him to
! bed or take him home, where he falls fat
/ in the entry. Do not wake up the chill
dren. They have had disgrace enough
| Do not let them know it. Hush it up.
But sometimes it cannot be hushed up
when the rum touches the brain and the
man becomes thoroughly frenzied. Such
an one came home, having been absent
| for some time, and during his absence
his wife had died, and she lay in the next
room prepared for the obsequies, and he
went in and dragged her by the locks,
and shook her out of her shroud, and
pitched her out of the window.
Oh! when rum touches the brain you
cannot hush it up. My friends, you see
all around about you the need that some
thing radical be done. You do not see
the worst. In the midnight
meetings at London great null
titude have been saved. We want
few hundred Christian men and women
to come down from the highest circles OF
society to toll amid these wandering and
destitute ones, and kindle up light in the
dark alley, even the gladness of heaven.
Do not go wrapped in your fine furs
and from your WeIl-flled tables with the
idea that pious talk is going to stop the
gnawing of an empty stomach or to warm
stockingless feet. Take bread, take raj
ment, take medicine asiwell as take prayer.
There is a great deal of common sense in
what the poor woman said to the city
missionary when he was telling her how
much she ought to love God and serve
Him. "Oh!" she said, s"if you were as
poor and cold as am, and as hungry,
you could think of nothing else"
A great deal of what is called Christian
work
GOES FOR NOTHING,
for the simple reason it is not practical;
as after the battle of Antietam man got
out of en- ambulance with bag of tracts,
and he went distributing the tracts, and
George Stuart, one of the best Christian
men in this country, said to him: "What
are you distributing tracts for now?
There are 5000 men bleeding to death.
Bind up their wounds, and then distribute
the tracts"
We want more common-sense in
Christian work, taking the bread Of this
life in one hand, and the bread of the
next life in the other hand. No such
inapt work as that done by the Christian
man who, during the last war, went to
hospital with tracts, and coming to the
bed of a man whose legs have been an
putated, gave him tract on the sin of
dancing! Irejoice before God that never
are sympathetic words uttered, never a